We hop on our camels and ride off to Canaan while my family sings: “O sister! May you grow Into thousands of myriads; May your offspring seize The gates of their foes.” I look back and smile. Damn straight they will.”

Rebecca Dana is a writer and journalist in New York. She is a former senior correspondent for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, where she wrote the weekly “Social Diaries” magazine column and reported on fashion, culture and entertainment. She has been a featured commentator on such shows as the “Today Show,” “The Joy Behar Show,” “Inside Edition,” “Access Hollywood,” and NPR’s “On the Media” and “Fair Game with Faith Salie.” She has made numerous appearances on MSNBC and CNN. Before joining The Daily Beast, Dana was a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Observer. She has also been published in: Rolling Stone Magazine, Vanity Fair Italia, Slate, Men’s Vogue, The Washington Post, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, Men’s Journal and The New York Times.